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Disabling the Outlook Express Splash Screen Did you know that Outlook Express will load faster if you disable the splash screen? 1. Open RegEdit 2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OutLook Express 3. Add a string value “NoSplash” 4. Set the value data to 1 as a Dword value
Read More »Hide The Network Neighborhood Icon
Hide The Network Neighborhood Icon Network users frequently click into Network Neighborhood, sometimes looking for resources they need, or just to see what they can find. Frequent network browsing can create network traffic jams by causing master browsers and backup browsers to repeatedly rebuild resource lists. You may want to …
Read More »Hiding The Virtual Memory Button
Hiding The Virtual Memory Button in Control Panel, System You can use this Registry entry to hide the Virtual Memory button on the Performance tab under Control Panel > System. By hiding this button, you can prevent users from changing or disabling the machine’s Virtual Memory setting, which can adversely …
Read More »Office File Association Problems
Office File Association Problems Have you tried to open a Word document from the Start, Documents menu only to be confronted with “cannot find xyz.doc”? How about frequent kernel32 errors in Word? Have you tried to open an Excel document or workbook only to have Excel inform you that it …
Read More »Preventing Security Changes in Internet Explorer
Need to prevent your Internet Explorer users from changing their security settings? Open Regedit Drill down to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Control Panel Open the Security Tab key You will need to either change the Dword value to one or add a Dword entry and set it to “1”. If you like, you can …
Read More »Correcting a Spare Stack Page error in Windows 95 and Windows 98
Spare Stack Pages Errors in Windows 95 and Windows 98 When you are running Windows 95 or Windows 98, you may receive the following error message: “ERROR MESSAGE” There are no spare stack pages. It may be necessary to increase the setting of ‘MinSPs’ in System.ini to prevent possible stack …
Read More »Sending a Message Without Opening Outlook
Send a Message Without Opening Outlook Have you ever just wanted to send a quick email without having to go through the motions of loading Outlook? You can, just by putting a mailto icon right on your desktop. Right-click anywhere on the desktop and choose New, Shortcut. In the Command …
Read More »Add Open With to all files
Remove Open, Explore & Find from Start Button When you right click on the Start Button, you can select Open, Explore or Find. Open shows your Programs folder. Explore starts the Explorer and allows access to all drives. Find allows you to search and then run programs. In certain situations …
Read More »Determining the Hard Drive Speed in Windows NT 4.0
Determining If Your Hard Disk Is Fast Enough Unlike Windows 95 and Windows 98, Windows NT has a Performance Monitor Counter that can be used to let you know whether or not your hard drive is too slow. To take advantage of this feature of the Performance Monitor: Log on …
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Remove items from the right click of the Start button HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Directory\Shell or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell Double Click Shell and delete any of these sub-keys like DOS Here and Find. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\Folder\Shell or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell Double Click Shell and delete any of these sub-keys like root explore, open, explore, etc..
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